Showing posts with label Race Card. Show all posts
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Race Card Alert!

May 22, 2015 Anita Bennett , Dr. Boyce D. Watkins 0 Comments
Jay Z Under Fire by Black Scholar for ‘Pulling Out the Race Card’ in Tidal Debate 

By Anita Bennett, May 21, 2105, The Wrap

Dr. Boyce D. Watkins tells TheWrap he takes issue with music mogul “invoking the names of Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown” in freestyle rap

Jay Z’s got 99 problems and his freestyle is one.

On Saturday at his closely-watched “B-sides” concert — which ran exclusively on the hip-hop mogul’s music streaming service Tidal — Jay Z responded to critics with a sharply-worded freestyle rap. During one verse, he connected Tidal’s troubles with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Freddie Gray — unarmed African-American men whose tragic deaths made international headlines.

“You know when I work, I ain’t your slave, right? You know I ain’t shucking and jiving and high-fiving, and you know this ain’t back in the days, right? Well I can’t tell how the way they killed Freddie Gray, right? Shot down Mike Brown how they did Tray, right?” the rap legend said.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Sen. Dick Durbin And The Race Card By Larry Elder

April 02, 2015 Articles by Larry Elder , Race Card 0 Comments
Sen. Dick Durbin
By Larry Elder, Apr. 2, 2015

Does Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., suffer from short, medium and long-term memory loss?

In criticizing Republicans for holding up the nomination of Loretta Lynch, Durbin said, "Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar." Race card alert!

Does Durbin not recall voting against Miguel Estrada and even participating in a filibuster against the man who would have been the first Hispanic on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit?

Estrada was born in Honduras. He immigrated to the United States when he was 17, arriving with a limited command of English. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1983. He graduated magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he became editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Estrada served as a law clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court for two years.

From 1990 until 1992, Estrada served as assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to the solicitor general for the George H. W. Bush administration, where he served with now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts. He has argued 22 cases before the United States Supreme Court.

But Estrada, after two years of waiting, finally withdrew his nomination for the Court of Appeals.

Does Durbin not recall voting against Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic U.S. attorney general?

Alberto Gonzales was born to a Catholic family in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Houston. Of Mexican descent, he was one of eight children born to his stay-at-home mother and construction-worker father, who met each other when both were migrant workers. Gonzales and his family of 10 lived in a two-bedroom house with no running hot water and -- until Gonzales was in high school -- no phone, either.

A high school honor student, Gonzales enlisted and served in the U.S. Air Force after graduation. He received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy, and later transferred to Rice University in Houston, where he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in political science in 1979. He got his law degree from Harvard in 1982, and began practicing law at a prestigious firm in Houston.

Does Durbin not recall voting against Janice Rogers Brown, the second black female on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit?

Born in Greenville, Alabama, Brown, a sharecropper's daughter, attended majority black schools as a child. Her family refused to enter businesses that segregated blacks. She earned her B.A. from California State University Sacramento in 1974 and her law degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977.

Finally, does Durbin not recall voting against the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice, the first black female secretary of state?

Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the only child of a schoolteacher/church organist and a football coach/Presbyterian minister. She grew up in the then-deeply segregated Jim Crow South. Rice knew two of the four little black girls killed while attending Sunday school during the tragic 1963 firebombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Rice began piano lessons at the age of three. She studied French and Spanish, and became a competitive figure skater. Attending segregated schools, Rice excelled, skipping the first and seventh grades. She attended an integrated public school for the first time in the 10th grade, when her family moved to Denver, Colorado. She finished her last year of high school and her first year at the University of Denver at the same time, at the age of 15.

She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies in 1981. That same year, she joined Stanford University as a political science professor. In 1993, Rice became the first woman and first African-American to serve as provost of Stanford University -- a post she held for six years.

To lefties like Durbin, a metamorphosis occurs to conservative women and people of color. Gloria Steinem, for example, once called Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." Conservative blacks cease being black. They're sellouts. Conservative Latinos are no longer Latino. They're "Tio Tacos." They are, you see, conservatives, a form of political subspecies. They are ideological doormats that Democrats can enthusiastically attack, and then -- with a straight face -- call Republicans "racist."

Astonishing.


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Friday, January 9, 2015

Race card—overdrawn

January 09, 2015 Jason DeWitt , Judgement 0 Comments
Judge Delivers Awesome Smackdown To Attorney For His Failed Race Card Attempt

Jason DeWitt, Jan. 8, 2015, Top Right News

“Don’t even go down that road,” Judge Hurley continued. “I’m not going to let you go down that road. That is so off base. We’ve got a young man — I don’t care what color he is — He’s in a neighborhood he doesn’t live in at 1:41 in the morning, hiding under someone’s dock in the water with a holster on, after a police officer had a shot taken at him. Don’t hand me this, ‘He’s a black man running from police brutality. Look, that is not appropriate in this case. That’s not there and I’m not going to let you poison this case with bringing in something that has nothing to do with it.”

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Jesse Jackson created the business model

January 05, 2015 Al Sharpton , Isabel Vincent 0 Comments
How Sharpton Gets Paid Not To Cry 'Racism' At Corporations

Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, Jan. 4, 2015, New York Post

Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting — what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton “shakedown” in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Things are NOT getting worse in "race relations"

December 31, 2014 Interracial Marriage , Marriage 0 Comments
Intermarriage: A Real Measure Of Race Relations

Naomi Schaefer Reilly, Dec. 29, 2014, New York Post

Our liberal elites have plainly decided it’s better if we’re all convinced that our country had made no progress on race since 1960, that lying just beneath the surface of every white person is a gurgling volcano of racial epithets ready to spew forth at the slightest provocation.

The current trend toward chronicling “microaggressions” (bits of racism so small you might not even see them as racism) is, if anything, evidence of the lack of a problem

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He cries "no justice, no peace"-- but denies any role in inciting violence

December 31, 2014 Al Sharpton , Barack Obama 0 Comments
Katie Pavlich: The Audacity Of Al Sharpton

Katie Pavlich, Dec. 29, 2014, The Hill

If Al Sharpton and his ilk really worked to solve problems and true racial disparities in America, they’d work their way out of a job, out of money and, most importantly, out of power, which is why Sharpton has been championing the same causes for decades with little results to show for it.

Will President Obama ever condemn Sharpton? Will Holder? No, and it’s because they truly agree with his ideas and believe in his positions, regardless of whether those ideas and positions are based in fact or help the country move forward.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

No justice, no beats!

December 28, 2014 Ferguson , Josh Feldman 0 Comments
Plane Diverted Over Passenger Listening To Loud Music, Invoking Ferguson

Josh Feldman, Dec. 27, 2014, Mediaite

When someone else complained and a flight attendant asked him to turn it down, he “made references to the recent Ferguson Missouri incident” and believed he was being “harassed” because of his skin color.

He went in and out of the bathroom several times, upset and crying, and the flight crew was so concerned they diverted the plane from its L.A. destination and landed in Albuquerque.

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Friday, December 5, 2014

GOWDY THROWS DOWN!

December 05, 2014 Executive Order , Immigration 1 Comments
Trey Gowdy Blasts Immigration Lawyer For Invoking Race

 Les Grossman, Dec. 2, 2014, YouTube

Trey Gowdy DESTROYS Marielena Hincapie for bringing race as an excuse for republicans response to the immigration debate At Immigration Executive Action Hearing. 



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Monday, November 10, 2014

Backfired!

November 10, 2014 Bil de Blasio , Equality 0 Comments
New York Post: Playing Racial Games

Michael Goodwin, Nov. 9, 2014

After New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton chose a  black man to replace another  black man as his deputy, a reporter asked Mayor de Blasio if the replacement “had to be a person of color.”

“No,” the mayor claimed.

That’s not a little white lie. This is a case where whites need not apply.

Across the land, racially charged disputes are grabbing headlines. Broad swaths of life, including school admissions, crime statistics, income and poverty levels, hiring and firing, are seen increasingly through the prism of skin color and ethnicity.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Race card alert!

November 03, 2014 "War On Women" , Blacks 0 Comments
78% Say Politicians Play ‘Race Card’ Just To Get Reelected

Rasmussen Reports, Nov. 3, 2014

There is surprising racial agreement. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of blacks agree with 79% of whites and 81% of other minority voters that most politicians raise racial issues just to get reelected.

These findings are similar to those regarding another common political charge these days, that some candidates are engaging in a “war on women.” But 59% of voters say the “war on women” is primarily a slogan used for political purposes. Only 22% believe there really is a political “war on women” going on.

When it comes to the specifics of the president, however, a racial divide is evident. Eighty-seven percent (87%) of black voters believe those who oppose Obama’s policies do so because of racism. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of whites and 56% of other minority voters think instead that opposition is primarily because they believe the president’s policies are bad.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Race card alert

October 28, 2014 Chad Dion Lassiter , North Philadelphia 0 Comments
Philly: 'Temple Town' Is The New Jim Crow

By Chad Dion Lassiter, Oct. 27, 2014, Philly.com

Google Maps a few weeks ago identified much of North Philadelphia as "Temple Town."

Temple University's encroachments upon North Philadelphia should no longer be shocking for it is real. While Temple University has officially denied any connection to this renaming, it appears clear that Temple University and developers are carving out a white enclave that in effect is no longer North Philadelphia. Most black folks will be unwelcomed.

What Temple wants is a white enclave of racial and class privilege. This makes Temple University and its developer friend not just gentrifiers, but guilty of resegregating Philadelphia on the model of South African apartheid.

This is a "New Jim Crow."

This form of Jim Crow is about urban space and land. It's about replacing black folks with upper-middle-class whites. It's about disrupting black communities and institutions. It's about disrespect. It's a return to the horrible past of blatant white supremacy.

In this respect, Temple is as bad as any white Southern oppressor from back in the day. The name of the game is a few crumbs off the table for some, but old-style white supremacy for the majority.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Race card alert!

September 28, 2014 Congressional Black Caucus , Ferguson 0 Comments
Cop Shot In Ferguson As Obama Says Most Americans Believe Nation Racist

By Rip Curl, Sept. 28, 2014, Truthrevolt.org

On the night a police officer was shot in a Missouri town torn by racial strife, President Obama donned a tuxedo at a black awards dinner and said racist police nationwide are to blame for community mistrust.

"Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement -- guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness," Obama said.

Obama, America's first half white, half black president, pointed out in the crowd the parents of Michael Brown, a black teenager killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., after robbing a liquor store. Then he said at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner that things are not getting better.

"Now, I won’t comment on the investigation. I know that Michael’s family is here tonight," he said to applause. "I know that nothing any of us can say can ease the grief of losing a child so soon. But the anger and the emotion that followed his death awakened our nation once again to the reality that people in this room have long understood, which is, in too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement."

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Now denounce Sharpton, then we'll be impressed

September 19, 2014 Actress Danièle Watts , Dennis Romero 0 Comments
Daniele Watts Denounced by Black Leaders

Credit:  chefbelive (Brian James Lucas)/Instagram
By Dennis Romero, Sept. 19, 2014, Laweekly.com

The tide of public opinion seems to have fully turned against actress Daniele Watts after she suggested racial profiling was behind her police stop in Studio City last week.

Her white boyfriend, self-proclaimed "rawk star chef" Brian James Lucas, went so far as to say cops questioned Watts and himself as if they were "ho and trick." Los Angeles Police Department audio of some of the confrontation, however, revealed absolutely zero racism at play. And TMZ photos of the pair appeared to show them having sex in a car, or something close to it, which was the reason for a police response all along, according to the LAPD.

Now some of L.A.'s most prominent African American leaders are denouncing Watts:

Project Islamic Hope President Najee Ali, Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other local civil rights leaders have lined up against Watts' claims that her race drove police to single her out for an investigation on the afternoon of Sept. 11.

The leaders will officially call her out during a 9:30 a.m. press conference today at the studios of KTYM 1460 AM in Inglewood, according to a statement. They also "demand" that the actress to apologize to the LAPD.

The leaders say new information has "cast doubt" on Watts' claim against the cops.

The actress, known for her work in Django Unchained and Weeds, told a sergeant who stopped her for questioning, "Do you know how many times the cops have [been] called for being black?"

She repeatedly refused the cop's request for her name or identification, saying that she didn't have to give up her identity, a claim that's disputed by interpretations of the law from some of the largest District Attorney's offices in California.

Read the full story:  www.laweekly.com

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Monday, September 15, 2014

TMZ: 'Django Unchained' Actress -- Cops: After Car Sex She Pulls Race, Fame Card

TMZ: 'Django Unchained' Actress -- Cops: After Car Sex She Pulls Race, Fame Card

September 15, 2014 'Django Unchained' , Actress Danièle Wattst 0 Comments


Related:  'Django Unchained' Actress -- Getting Out of Cuffs

 Related:  'Django Unchained' Actress The Racial Accusations

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Eric Holder: A More Dangerous Race-Card Hustler Than Al Sharpton

September 03, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Attorney General Eric Holder 0 Comments
By Larry Elder, Sept. 4, 2014

 It's one thing to watch race hustlers like the Rev. Al Sharpton bellowing, "No justice, no peace." But when the attorney general of the United States makes false but racially incendiary claims about today's alleged "pernicious racism," we are in uncharted territory.

 Holder complains about different prison rates, different school expulsion rates and longer prison sentences for black boys and men compared to white boys and men. He equates "equal rights" with "equal results."

 In Ferguson, Missouri, after announcing federal investigation into the cop-shooting death of an unarmed black teen, Holder said: "I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man. I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. ... I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me."

 The New Jersey Turnpike? The long-believed claim of "racism" on that highway has been investigated -- and debunked. Twice.

 Numerous complaints of DWB -- Driving While Black -- were filed by blacks driving on the New Jersey Turnpike. So the state entered into a consent decree, agreed to federal monitoring, and put their officers through, among other things, "sensitivity training." New Jersey commissioned a study, checking motorists' speed with laser guns and photographing drivers of vehicles going 15 mph or more over the speed limit.

 The result? It turned out that more speeders were black than white, which explained why cops pulled over black motorists so often. The U.S. Justice Department, which requested the study, did not want the results released to the public. Instead, they accused the researchers of using a "flawed methodology." Why shelve a report that disproves racism? Isn't it good news that Jersey troopers do not pull blacks over willy-nilly? Would this not improve race relations in New Jersey? No -- the facts did not fit the script.

 The next year, state police "stop data" showed that, on the southern part of the turnpike, 30 percent of the drivers pulled over were minority -- almost twice the 16 percent rate of minority stops elsewhere on the turnpike. So, amid new allegations that cops were targeting minorities, and to correct the "flawed methodology" of the previous researchers, New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey commissioned yet another study. The result? Again, it turned out a disproportionately higher percentage of drivers on that stretch of highway were black, and that blacks were more likely than non-blacks to drive 80 miles per hour or faster. Again, critics called the study's methodology "flawed."

 Over 20 years ago, black liberal Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said: "The sociological truths are that America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa." Holder, however, sees an America -- as to "race-relations" -- still mired in the 1950s.

 On a plane about 20 years ago, I met a black man who told me he was nearing 100 years old. What is the secret, I asked, to a long and happy life? Tall and ramrod straight, he said: "I tell my granddaughters to greet everyone with a big smile and an outstretched hand for a handshake. But those young girls don't wanna hear nothing about no smile and no handshake. That generation ain't got no appreciation for how easy they got it."

 Perhaps Holder feels guilty because he didn't do something more noble, like marching with MLK while braving attack dogs and water hoses. Perhaps Holder feels guilty because of his own personal success and fears the "people he left behind" will resent him if he doesn't sound empathetic.

 Holder's victicrat mentality might also explain why rich blacks -- including, for time, Oprah Winfrey -- belonged to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ whose pastor denounces the very drive for upward mobility that made Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey.

 Why else would successful blacks pull up in their Lexus and BMW's to attend a church that denounces the work ethic that enabled them to drive nice cars, live in nice houses in nice, clean and safe neighborhoods? What sense does it make for a rich black man to listen to his pastor tell him how racism has held him back from becoming rich?

 Those "left behind" need a message of hard work and accountability and of seizing the opportunities uniquely offered by the United States of America. In a 1997 Time/CNN poll, a majority of black teens called racism a "big problem." But 89 percent of black teens called racism a "small problem" or "not a problem at all" in their own lives. In fact, nearly twice as many black teens than white teens called "failure to take advantage of available opportunities" a bigger problem than racism.

 Tell that to Mr. Holder.

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Ferguson (Isolated): Larry's Interview With Paul Ryan--Eric Holder Plays The Race Card

Ferguson (Isolated): Larry's Interview With Paul Ryan--Eric Holder Plays The Race Card

August 23, 2014 Attorney General Eric Holder , Ferguson 0 Comments

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

ICYMI: "Will Eric Holder EVER Run Out Of Race Cards?" By Larry Elder

August 19, 2014 Attorney General Holder , Hillary Rodham Clinton 0 Comments
Attorney General Eric Holder
Credit:  AP
By Larry Elder, Jul. 17, 2014

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a recent interview, reiterates the theme heard from the very beginning of President Barack Obama's administration: opposition to Obama's agenda equals racism. "There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me (and) directed at the president."

What is Holder's proof -- to the extent that any is required?

After all, following his election, Obama's favorable ratings reached nearly 80 percent, higher than any president-elect since John F. Kennedy. Obama, in 2008, received a greater percentage of the "white vote" than did John Kerry.

Polls, studies and statistics, for Holder, aren't relevant when it comes to racism. Some claim to possess "gaydar," an ability to discern the sexual orientation of a gay person. Holder, it seems, possesses the instinctive ability to discern "racists."

Holder added, "You know, people talking about taking their country back. ... There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus."

Is Holder truly suggesting opponents disguise their racial animus through rhetoric like, "taking their country back"? Where have we heard the assertion that the take-back-America slogan equals racism?

Ben Jealous, the former president and CEO of the NAACP, made the same argument back in 2010. "They use this rhetoric," said Jealous, "'take back our country' -- as if nobody else belongs to the country. ... They question the nationality of people of color from the President all the way down. And it's deeply, deeply disturbing."

But CNN's Anderson Cooper played Jealous a montage of Democratic politicians using the very same rhetoric:

Then-presidential candidate Howard Dean, 2003: "Today, we stand in common purpose to take our country back!"

Then-presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, 2004: "To take back our country ... "

Sen. Charles Schumer, N.Y., 2006: "We are going to take our country back!"

Then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, 2007: "It's going to be because of you that we take our country back."

Then-presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, 2008: "To make sure we take our country back ... "

New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson, 2008: "Are you ready to take our country back?"

Then-Minnesota senatorial candidate Al Franken, 2008: "This is the year we take our country back."

Harvard law professor and defense attorney Alan Dershowitz made the same rhetoric-equals-racism argument back in 1998, only he objected the way the "right wing" refers to themselves as "real Americans." For example, a former Southern Republican criticized Dershowitz by saying, "Real America understands that the Constitution is there for a reason."

To this Dershowitz responded, "Whenever I hear the words 'real Americans,' that sounds to me like a code word for racism, a code word for bigotry, a code word for anti-Semitism." We go again to the videotape:

Then-President Bill Clinton, 1995: "Look, I know America first and foremost is a place where individual effort and family values count. That's why I am successful. But I live in the real America -- not in Washington, D.C."

Then-President Clinton, 1997: "Remember how you have seen things like that during the natural disasters here in California. That is the face of the real America. That is the face I have seen over and over again. That is the America somehow, some way, we have to make real in daily American life."

Then-President Clinton, 1998: "America's got a good agenda in the coming months. We can be for saving Social Security first, better schools, a cleaner environment, and a Patient's Bill of Rights, and we can sell that in every place in America. They are real choices real Americans face in this election."

Then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1994: "They have enabled this day to come about, because they were willing to think differently, to put people first, to solve real problems that real Americans face every day."

Then-House Minority Leader Rep. Richard Gephardt, Mo., 1998: "We will carry on this fight every day of the rest of this year to fight for the real issues that real Americans care about so deeply."

Speaking of race, Attorney General Holder said, "The greatest threats (posed by racism) do not announce themselves in screaming headlines. They are more subtle. They cut deeper ... and ... are more pernicious." Holder offered three specific examples of "subtle," "deep," "pernicious" racism.

What are they? One, the push by some states for voter ID. Two, that black men receive longer prison sentences compared to white men for same crime. Third, that black kids are expelled/suspended at higher rates compared to white students.

In the case of voter ID, blacks support the requirement almost as much as do whites. Prison sentences are based, in part on arrests, something juries are unusually barred from hearing about. As for suspensions, schools in both liberal and conservative areas experience the same thing -- black boys disproportionately expelled.

Blame bad behavior, lack of discipline at home or fatherless homes. But blaming the consequences of bad behavior on "pernicious" racism does damage to growth and personal responsibility. Nice work, Mr. Holder.

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Monday, August 18, 2014

ICYMI: ES 60: Ferguson: Another Case Of Mass Race Card Hysteria

ICYMI: ES 60: Ferguson: Another Case Of Mass Race Card Hysteria

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Friday, August 15, 2014

ES 60: Ferguson: Another Case Of Mass Race Card Hysteria

ES 60: Ferguson: Another Case Of Mass Race Card Hysteria

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Will Eric Holder Ever Run Out of Race Cards? By Larry Elder

July 17, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Attorney General Eric Holder 1 Comments
By Larry Elder, Jul. 17, 2014, Townhall.com / IBD.com

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a recent interview, reiterates the theme heard from the very beginning of President Barack Obama's administration: opposition to Obama's agenda equals racism. "There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me (and) directed at the president."

What is Holder's proof -- to the extent that any is required?

After all, following his election, Obama's favorable ratings reached nearly 80 percent, higher than any president-elect since John F. Kennedy. Obama, in 2008, received a greater percentage of the "white vote" than did John Kerry.

Polls, studies and statistics, for Holder, aren't relevant when it comes to racism. Some claim to possess "gaydar," an ability to discern the sexual orientation of a gay person. Holder, it seems, possesses the instinctive ability to discern "racists."

Holder added, "You know, people talking about taking their country back. ... There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus."

Is Holder truly suggesting opponents disguise their racial animus through rhetoric like, "taking their country back"? Where have we heard the assertion that the take-back-America slogan equals racism?

Ben Jealous, the former president and CEO of the NAACP, made the same argument back in 2010. "They use this rhetoric," said Jealous, "'take back our country' -- as if nobody else belongs to the country. ... They question the nationality of people of color from the President all the way down. And it's deeply, deeply disturbing."

But CNN's Anderson Cooper played Jealous a montage of Democratic politicians using the very same rhetoric:

Then-presidential candidate Howard Dean, 2003: "Today, we stand in common purpose to take our country back!"

Then-presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, 2004: "To take back our country ... "

Sen. Charles Schumer, N.Y., 2006: "We are going to take our country back!"

Then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, 2007: "It's going to be because of you that we take our country back."

Then-presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, 2008: "To make sure we take our country back ... "

New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson, 2008: "Are you ready to take our country back?"

Then-Minnesota senatorial candidate Al Franken, 2008: "This is the year we take our country back."

Harvard law professor and defense attorney Alan Dershowitz made the same rhetoric-equals-racism argument back in 1998, only he objected the way the "right wing" refers to themselves as "real Americans." For example, a former Southern Republican criticized Dershowitz by saying, "Real America understands that the Constitution is there for a reason."

To this Dershowitz responded, "Whenever I hear the words 'real Americans,' that sounds to me like a code word for racism, a code word for bigotry, a code word for anti-Semitism." We go again to the videotape:

Then-President Bill Clinton, 1995: "Look, I know America first and foremost is a place where individual effort and family values count. That's why I am successful. But I live in the real America -- not in Washington, D.C."

Then-President Clinton, 1997: "Remember how you have seen things like that during the natural disasters here in California. That is the face of the real America. That is the face I have seen over and over again. That is the America somehow, some way, we have to make real in daily American life."

Then-President Clinton, 1998: "America's got a good agenda in the coming months. We can be for saving Social Security first, better schools, a cleaner environment, and a Patient's Bill of Rights, and we can sell that in every place in America. They are real choices real Americans face in this election."

Then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1994: "They have enabled this day to come about, because they were willing to think differently, to put people first, to solve real problems that real Americans face every day."

Then-House Minority Leader Rep. Richard Gephardt, Mo., 1998: "We will carry on this fight every day of the rest of this year to fight for the real issues that real Americans care about so deeply."

Speaking of race, Attorney General Holder said, "The greatest threats (posed by racism) do not announce themselves in screaming headlines. They are more subtle. They cut deeper ... and ... are more pernicious." Holder offered three specific examples of "subtle," "deep," "pernicious" racism.

What are they? One, the push by some states for voter ID. Two, that black men receive longer prison sentences compared to white men for same crime. Third, that black kids are expelled/suspended at higher rates compared to white students.

In the case of voter ID, blacks support the requirement almost as much as do whites. Prison sentences are based, in part on arrests, something juries are unusually barred from hearing about. As for suspensions, schools in both liberal and conservative areas experience the same thing -- black boys disproportionately expelled.

Blame bad behavior, lack of discipline at home or fatherless homes. But blaming the consequences of bad behavior on "pernicious" racism does damage to growth and personal responsibility. Nice work, Mr. Holder.

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